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What was the last really quotable movie?


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6 minutes ago, John said:

What's the matter with you kids? You've never seen a spaceship before?

 

You ever been in a cockpit before?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You ever seen a grown man naked?

 

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5 hours ago, Quintus said:

In more than a decade of being online I've never seen any of those sentences in print.

 

I posit that's more to do with the relative obscurity of the film than with it's quotability.

3 hours ago, Richard said:

@Blumenkohl, you forgot the best THE MATRIX quote.

 

"Really good noodles."

4 hours ago, Glóin the Dark said:

In Bruges (2008)

 

"You're a fucking inanimate object!"

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Harry Potter has gotta be the most memed and spoofed pop culture item among millennials. Most of that starts with the books, phrases like "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" or "10 points to Gryffindor" are just generally ubiquitous but some things were made extra quotable through the movies, especially the first one.

 

"You're a wizard, Harry!"

"TROOOOOOLL IN THE DUNGEONS!"

"It's Leviooooosa"

"Our...new...celebrity"

 

Mean Girls is also a quotable mainstay in my generation.

 

"Oh my god, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white"

"Boo you whore!"

"Your mom's chest hair!"

"Stop trying to make fetch happen, it's NOT going to happen"

"She doesn't even go here!" 

"Four for you, Glen Coco! You go Glen Coco!"

"Don't have sex because you will get pregnant. And die"

"He's almost too gay to function"

"One time Regina George punched me in the face. It was awesome"

"I can't help it if I've got a heavy flow and a wide-set vagina"

"Oh my god Danny DeVito! I love your work!"

"It's like I have ESPN or something"

 

Those are 2001 and 2004, though. The Room (2003), for sure. Anchorman (2004). The Departed (2006) has a lot of good one-liners. Borat (2006), Superbad (2007).

 

Harder to think of something this decade but might just be out of touch. Social Network (It'll be because you're an asshole, I'm CEO bitch) and Wolf of Wall Street (Sell me this pen) had some zippy dialogue.

 

"My name is Jeff" from 22 Jump Street is probably the movie quote of the decade tbh.

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8 minutes ago, Mephariel said:

The Dark Knight.

 

"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now."

 

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

"Some men just want to watch the world burn"

 

I still see those

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10 hours ago, publicist said:

Don't agree. The Morricone one was eminently quotable.

 

And you quote them in German, right? 

 

 

What a world! What a world!

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I will say that as far as super-quotable movies, where you can have entire conversations by replying with quotes and ignorant people none the wiser, there are few that get close to Jaws.

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1 hour ago, Alexcremers said:

And you quote them in German, right? 

 

Well, words like 'cunt' just sound so much more flowery in german.

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11 hours ago, mrbellamy said:

"You're a wizard, Harry!"

"TROOOOOOLL IN THE DUNGEONS!"

"It's Leviooooosa"

"Our...new...celebrity"

 

 

It's hard to define what I mean, but I think there's a difference between films that can be quoted simply because everyone knows them and the lines are iconic, and films where the lines themselves are actually imminently quotable. Of the above, only "Leviooosa" strikes be as quotable on its own. Like pretty much everything in Big Lebowski and Sneakers does. As I said, hard to define, and perhaps subjective, though it feels like there's at least a little more to it than pure personal preference.

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- The greater good

- Yarp

- Two blokes, and a fuckload of cutlery

- fascism, wonderful

- No luck catching them swans, then

etc :P 

 

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I don't think anyone at JWFan enjoyed the movie as much as me, but "Dormammu, I've come to bargain" has been a frequent quote in my household for the past year, in a variety of situations.  Mostly involving funny babies.

 

Anyway, in this social media era, it's not through quotes that movies become immortal, but internet memes.

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